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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did DuBois experience himself as a Negro for the first time?
(a) When he bought another man's freedom.
(b) In early childhood.
(c) Listening to the Fisk University Jubilee Singers.
(d) When he asked to vote.

2. What did blacks symbolize for Richard Wright?
(a) America's history of racial slavery.
(b) Exploitation of labor for profit.
(c) The earth and its resources.
(d) Childhood and early consciousness.

3. What were Richard Wright's politics?
(a) Socialist.
(b) Communist.
(c) Militarist.
(d) Anti-imperialist.

4. What does Gilroy say gave Richard Wright his authenticity?
(a) His travels to Africa.
(b) His political activities.
(c) His origins in Mississippi.
(d) His birth in Chicago.

5. What distinction does Gilroy say Richard Wright was the first black writer to achieve?
(a) The Pullitzer Price for fiction.
(b) Recognition by the international literary establishment.
(c) Bestseller status in the U.S.
(d) Bestseller status in Europe.

6. What feeling did DuBois see in the culture of diaspora blacks?
(a) Anger for being taken into exile.
(b) Resentment of progress.
(c) Longing for the apocalypse.
(d) Ambivalence about modernity.

7. Why should blacks openly recognize the debt of their cultural language?
(a) To recognize that their culture is part of a larger cultural development.
(b) To build bridges to white culture.
(c) To make peaceful relations with Jews.
(d) To accept their place in Western civilization.

8. Which adjective does DuBois NOT use for the black experience?
(a) Individualized.
(b) Communal.
(c) Alienated.
(d) Cosmopolitan.

9. What are the two parts of the double consciousness Gilroy describes?
(a) Self-aware intellect and blind impulses and urges.
(b) Primitive culture and modern culture.
(c) Politics of subordination and politics of emancipation.
(d) Politics of fulfillment and politics of transformation.

10. What term did James Weldon Johnson use for blacks in The Autobiography of An Ex-Coloured Man?
(a) 'Dual personality'.
(b) 'Urban-cosmopolitan'.
(c) 'Schizophrenic'.
(d) 'King of the kingdom of culture'.

11. What does Gilroy say about racial traditions?
(a) We can regain them if they are still practiced somewhere.
(b) They are endangered throughout the world, not just in the black Atlantic.
(c) We cannot recover them once they are lost.
(d) They are the source of all opposition to modernity.

12. What does music allow black culture to do with this feeling?
(a) Commercialize it.
(b) Escape it.
(c) Deny it.
(d) Repossess it.

13. How does Gilroy say DuBois arrived at his identity?
(a) By choice.
(b) Straight from his roots.
(c) By many routes.
(d) Accidentally.

14. What ontological state does Gilroy say is the heart of many stories in black culture?
(a) The state of being in pain.
(b) The state of nostalgia for home.
(c) The state of longing for self-expression and fulfillment.
(d) The state of displacement from the self.

15. What movement is Richard Wright associated with?
(a) Black pacifism.
(b) Black power.
(c) Muslim militarism.
(d) Pan-Africanism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Richard Wright criticize, according to Gilroy?

2. What theory culminated in the Holocaust?

3. What did Richard Wright want to deprive white people of?

4. When was the journal 'Presence Africaine' published?

5. How does Gilroy defend Richard Wright against charges of sexism?

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